Save Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani's Campaign

Campaign News

In Media

July 1, 2010
Resolutions of the Protest against Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani’s Stoning Verdict

We are gathered here today in response to the plight of Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani’s children. They have called upon the world for help to save their mother’s life. We in [name of the place where the protest is being held]… tell them that we feel their pain and enormous grief. We want them to know that they are not alone in their sorrow and anguish.

Dear ones! Your letter has raised a wave of sympathy and compassion, demonstrating that humanity is alive. Today we loudly declare that:
...

Iranian family say adultery conviction was bogus and that woman has already been subjected to 99 lashes

A 43-year-old Iranian woman is facing death by stoning unless an international campaign launched by her children forces the authorities to quash what her lawyer calls a bogus conviction.
In a case that highlights the growing use of the death penalty in a country that has already executed more than 100 people this year, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted in May 2006 of conducting an "illicit relationship outside marriage."
Source: The Guardian Campaign for Iranian woman facing death by stoning

June 28, 2010Friday July 2, Global Protest Against the Stoning Verdict of Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani

Those responsible for stoning should be prosecuted in an International court.
In response to the plight of the children of Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Campaign to Save Sakine calls upon you to protest against this verdict in any possible way.
...

(CNN) -- Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, is waiting to die in Iran by a method of execution described by her lawyer as "barbaric" -- stoning.

She will be buried up to her chest, deeper than a man would be, and the stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately, according to an Amnesty International report that cited the Iranian penal code.
Source: The CNN Death by stoning imminent for Iranian woman, attorney says

In two weeks’ time, on July 11, we remember the anniversary of Maryam Ayubi’s stoning. And these days, we endeavour to save Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani from stoning. Maryam was —like Sakine— a mother of two children.
...

Two women are feared to be at imminent risk of execution. Zeynab Jalalian, a political activist and member of the Kurdish minority , was sentenced to death in early 2009 after being convicted of “enmity against God”, while Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, whose conviction of “adultery while being married” was upheld in May 2007, could be executed by stoning at any time.
Source: Amnesty International: Fears for prisoners on death row

Do not allow our nightmare become a reality, Protest against our mother’s stoning!

Today we stretch out our hands to the people of the whole world. It
is now five years that we have lived in fear and in horror, deprived
of motherly love. Is the world so cruel that it can watch this
catastrophe and do nothing about it?

We are Sakine Mohammadi e Ashtiani’s children, Fasride and Sajjad
Mohamamadi e Ashtiani. Since our childhood we have been acquainted
with the pain of knowing that our mother is imprisoned and awaiting
a catastrophe
...

An Iranian woman faces being stoned to death after being accused of committing adultery with two men involved in the killing of her husband, the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday.
If the barbaric sentence is enforced it would be the first stoning to take place in the hardline Islamic Republic in years, the Israeli paper said.
Source: FoxNews: Iranian Woman Faces Being Stoned to Death for Adultery

Iranian woman faces death by stoning

An Iranian woman convicted of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning. If carried out the sentence would be the first known stoning to take place in the Islamic Republic in years.
Source: The Jerusalem Post: Iranian woman faces death by stoning